Johann Radmann
ALEXANDER FEHLING was born in Berlin in 1981 and attended the Hochschule für Schauspielkunst Ernst Busch from 2003 to 2007. He starred in stage roles at the Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin, the Berliner Ensemble, the bat Berlin, the Deutsches Theater Berlin, the Berliner Sophiensäle and the Theater am Neumarkt in Zurich. In 2006 he was awarded the O. E. Hasse Award of the Akademie der Künste for his role as the Prince in Robert Walser's "Schneewittchen." Fehling made his cinematic debut in 2007 in the role of Sven in Robert Thalheim's highly noted AND ALONG COME TOURISTS, for which he was awarded the Förderpreis Deutscher Film. In 2008 he starred in Hans-Christian Schmid's war criminal drama STORM and in Frieder Wittich's student comedy 13 SEMESTER. His role in Quentin Tarantino's theatrical hit INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS brought him international recognition. This was followed by the title role in GOETHE ! (2009, director: Philipp Stölzl), which won him the Metropolis Award as Best Actor, a nomination for the German Film Award and a Jupiter Award. In 2011 Fehling was honored as a German "Shooting Star" at the Berlinale. That same year Andres Veiel's IF NOT US, WHO? ran in competition there; in it, Fehling plays the role of Andreas Baader. In 2012 Fehling played alongside Ronald Zehrfeld and August Diehl in the GDR drama SHORES OF HOPE; in late 2013 he appeared in German theaters along with and under the direction of Michael Bully Herbig in BUDDY.
Fritz Bauer
"Gert Voss was a wizard, a truly grandiose actor. For me and the entire team, it was a great gift to be able to work with him, to see how he filled this role and endowed the larger-than- life character of Fritz Bauer with depth, wisdom and presence. It is a gift we are very thankful for. This experience will live on with us forever."
- Giulio Ricciarelli
GERT VOSS was born in Shanghai in 1941 and lived there until 1948. He spent the rest of his early years in Hamburg, Cologne, Heidenheim an der Brenz and on Lake Constance. He studied German and English literature and took private acting lessons with Ellen Mahlke, which were followed by theater engagements in Constance and other cities. It was in Constance that Voss was discovered by Hans-Peter Doll and hired for Brunswick and Stuttgart. He later transferred to Bochum with Claus Peymann and was invited to the Berliner Theatertreffen in 1983 in his role as Hermann in the "Hermannsschlacht." He appeared there in 20 productions altogether, and was chosen as actor of the year for seven times. Voss again transferred with Peymann in 1986, this time to the Burgtheater in Vienna. He was acclaimed there as Richard III, Shylock, Lear and in Thomas Bernhard's play "Ritter, Dene, Voss." Gert Voss worked with Peter Zadek, George Tabori, Luc Bondy, Andrea Breth, Thomas Langhoff and Thomas Ostermeier; played at the Berliner Ensemble and the Schaubühne Berlin. Among his guest roles, the title role in "Jedermann" at the Salzburg Festival deserves to be pointed out, a role he played during four summers (1995-1998). Gert Voss received many awards for his work, including the Gertrud Eysoldt Ring, the Kainz Medal, the Federal Order of Merit in 1989 and the Fritz Kortner Award in 1992. He was proclaimed Best Actor in Europe by the Times and received the Award of the International Theater Institute (ITI) in 1997 as well as the Nestroy Award in 2000. In 2012 the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung honored him with an homage as most significant actor of our time. Gert Voss has been seen repeatedly in highly select roles in movies and on television, for instance in Axel Corti's and Gernot Roll's TV miniseries RADETZKY MARCH (1994), in the historical two-parter BALZAC: A PASSIONATE LIFE (1999), on the big screen in Sebastian Schipper's SOMETIME IN AUGUST (2008) and, most recently, in Helmut Dietl's ZETTL (2012).
Gert Voss died on 13 July 2014 after a short but serious illness.
Thomas Gnielka
Born in Chemnitz in 1974, ANDRÉ SZYMANSKI attended the Berliner Hochschule für Schauspielkunst Ernst Busch. After his studies he worked at the Deutsches Theater before transferring to the Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz in 1999. He has been a permanent ensemble member of Hamburg's Thalia Theater since the 2009/2010 season. He has played in productions by Thomas Ostermeier, Sascha Waltz, Christina Paulhofer, Falk Richter, Luk Perceval and Antú Romero Nunes. In 2011 André Szymanski was honored with the renowned Ulrich Wildgruber Award. Next to his stage work Szymanski played in TV productions such as DIE FRAU AUS DEM MEER (2008), WIE MATROSEN (2010), and in the highly praised GESTERN WAREN WIR FREMDE (2012). He also starred in the feature films WOLFSBURG (2003) and IN THE SHADOWS (2009).
Marlene Wondrak
FRIEDERIKE BECHT was born in Bad Bergzabern in 1986 and studied acting at the Universität der Künste in Berlin from 2004 to 2008. She worked at the Berliner Ensemble, the Stadttheater Freiburg, the Zurich Schauspielhaus and the Ernst Deutsch Theater in Hamburg. In 2009/2010 she was hired by the Schauspiel Essen, and has been a permanent member of the Schauspielhaus Bochum since the 2010/2011 season. Next to her extensive theater work with reputable directors such as Katharina Thalbach, Anselm Weber, Tina Engel and Peter Stein, Friederike Becht also starred in TV movies and feature films, playing in WESTWIND (2011), her first theatrical lead role. She was also seen in HANNAH ARENDT (2012), which was awarded the German Film Award in Silver in 2013, and in the TV Movie THE WAGNER-CLAN. In 2014 she again starred in films, namely BECKS LETZTER SOMMER and NACHSPIELZEIT.
Director and Scriptwriter
The actor, director and producer GIULIO RICCIARELLI was born in Milan in 1965 and began his career after his training as a stage actor at the Otto Falckenberg Schule. He took on an engagement at the Theater Basel in 1989/90 and worked at the Staatstheater Stuttgart, the Kammerspiele in Munich, the Schauspiel Bonn (1992/94) and at the Bayerisches Staatsschauspiel. He also starred in many TV roles, and in feature films such as ROSSINI (1996). In 2000 he founded - together with Sabine Lamby - the naked eye filmproduction, which has made a name for itself with feature films by talented young directors, such as MADRID (2002) and THE FRIEND (2003). Next to his activity as producer, Ricciarelli also works as a director. His short film VINCENT was awarded the Golden Sparrow in 2005 and was nominated for the European Film Award. This was followed by further short films: in 2008 LOVE IT LIKE IT IS, and in 2009 LIGHTS, which was shown in the short-film competition of the film festival Max Ophüls Preis, and was also nominated for the European Film Award.
LABYRINTH OF LIES is Giulio Ricciarellí's cinematic feature film debut as director and scriptwriter.
Screenplay
Elisabeth Bartel was born in Graz, Austria, in 1968. After studying American literature in Munich, she headed from 1993 to 1997 a film distribution firm for international short films and documentaries which she co-founded. She then pursued studies for an MBA at the Wharton Business School in Philadelphia and worked briefly in a renowned business consultancy before returning to the media industry as member of the management of a Kinowelt Medien AG subsidiary. For ten years now she has been a script reader and consultant for Constantin Film, Eurimages, A Company Filmed Entertainment and many others. In 2009 she began with the research and subject development of LABYRINTH OF LIES.
LABYRINTH OF LIES is Elisabeth Bartel's debut as scriptwriter.
Producer | Claussen+Wöbke+Putz Filmproduktion
Born in Lauingen an der Donau in 1965, Uli Putz trained as a photographer after her secondary schooling. After working for several years in this profession, she undertook studies in the production and media economics department at the Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film in Munich, and graduated in 1993. She then worked as production head at Claussen+Wöbke. Since 1999 she has been teaching quite frequently at the its Cologne and the BAF Munich. Currently she is guest lecturer at the Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film (HFF München), as well as at the German-French master class at the Filmakademie Ludwigsburg.
Since 2004 she has been producer, general manager and partner at Claussen+Wöbke+Putz. Claussen+Wöbke+Putz (previously Claussen+Wöbke) was responsible in the past years for productions such as BEYOND SILENCE (1996), 23 (1999), CRAZY (2000), ANATOMY (2000), SUMMER STORM (2004), KRABAT (2008), MARIA, HE DOESN'T LIKE IT (2008), BOXHAGENER PLATZ (2010), 13 SEMESTER (2010), VAMPIRE SISTERS (2012) and THE LITTLE GHOST (2013).
Producer | naked eye filmproduction
Sabine Lamby was born in Frankfurt am Main in 1966. She studied journalism, German literature and political sciences in Mainz and Munich. During her studies she worked in various advertising agencies and production companies in Frankfurt and Munich (including Constantin Film and Senator Film). She gathered her first practical experiences in film shooting in Berlin as director's and production assistant. After a longish stint working with the director Romuald Karmakar in Munich, she became an assistant to the film-business management at various production firms and became independent in 2000 with Giulio Ricciarelli. The two founded the naked eye filmproduction in Munich. Their first theatrical film BIRTHDAY was made in 2001 under the direction of Stefan Jäger (Script Award Max Ophüls Festival). This was followed by further theatrical films, including MADRID (2003, Hessian Film Award) and THE FRIEND (2003, first steps award). In 2007 the naked eye filmproduction won the Federal short film award in gold for the film THE FROZEN SEA by Lukas Miko. In 2010 a branch office of the naked eye was established in Berlin and concentrates chiefly on subject development.
Producer | Claussen+Wöbke+Putz Filmproduktion
Born in Frankfurt am Main in 1961, he followed up his secondary education and leaving exam with various apprenticeships at film production companies and trained as industrial manager at the Henkel KGA. After a number of different tasks as location manager, he was definitively drawn to the film branch, and studied at the Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film (HFF) in Munich from 1986-89 in the department of feature films and TV films. He then spent two years as line producer at the HFF München in Department III, in which he also oversaw the development, financing, production, distribution and sales of short films and of several full-length TV films, along with various special projects as well.
In 1992 he and Thomas Wöbke founded the Claussen+Wöbke Filmproduktion GmbH. He has since been producing feature films.